Remember when Kanye West said that he was done with politics? Welp, that didn’t last long.
Pharrell Williams is taking legal action against President Trump for using (abusing) his hit song,
“I don’t know if I properly apologized for how that slave comment made people feel, so I want to take this moment right now to say that I’m sorry for hurting, I’m sorry for the one-two effect of the MAGA hat into the slave comment,” Kanye West said on a Chicago radio station. He goes […]
President Donald Trump has told Congress he is canceling a pay raise that most civilian federal employees were due to receive in January, citing budgetary constraints. Trump informed House and Senate leaders in a letter sent Thursday, which stated that locality pay increases would cost $25 billion, on top of a 2.1 percent across-the-board increase for […]
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spent $31,000 late last year on a new dining room set for Secretary Ben Carson’s office, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The purchase included a custom hardwood table, chairs and a hutch. Officials bought the furniture a short time after a HUD staff member filed a […]
This month’s issue of Ellle magazine features an in-depth conversation with the outspoken Rep. Maxine Waters ( (D-CA) about Trump and the power of the truth. You crowded into a packed venue to hear her speak; of course you saw her presenting with blackish star and all-around icon Tracee Ellis Ross on the MTV Movie Awards. […]
In a speech on Monday, President Donald Trump implied that members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and others who did not applaud during his State of the Union (SOTU) address were treasonous. “…Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much,” said Trump. Just […]
Source: BuzzFeed Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and commentator Angela Rye will appear on BET this week with alternative responses to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. The Congresswoman will appear on BET immediately following the SOTU on Tuesday night. On Wednesday evening, Rye will present a SOTU rebuttal in the form of a primetime hour […]
The non-partisan U.S. Conference of Mayors cancelled its meeting with President Trump after the Department of Justice (DOJ) asked nearly two dozen jurisdictions to show whether their local law enforcement officials were sharing information with immigration authorities. The DOJ has repeatedly threatened to deny millions of dollars in important grant money to communities that refuse to share information, […]
Florida is bracing for a direct hit. Miami: A new forecast shows Miami in line for direct hit. The Caribbean: Irma hammered a string of northeast islands. Barbuda took a major hit, with 90% of its buildings damaged. Haiti is NOT ready for Irma, officials say. Hurricane Jose: It’s just behind Irma, and it’s now a Category […]
Comedian, Kathy Griffin is now saying the entire situation was “blown out of proportion” when she released an image earlier this year on her social media depicting a decapitated President Trump. Kathy recently opened up about the headline-making incident on Australian talk show Sunrise earlier this week, backtracking on her previous apology. “I am no longer sorry, […]
Earlier this month, Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D) wrote, “I hope Trump is assassinated!” in a morning Facebook exchange. She quickly deleted her post, but not before others saw it. By mid-afternoon, Congressman Lacy Clay (D-MO) weighed in: “Calling for the assassination of the President is a federal crime. … (She is) an embarrassment to […]
